Five years ago today, I wandered here via TV Tropes after reading the Original Series. I introduced myself on someone else's thread, accidentally used my own email address as a username on my own introductory thread, and proceeded to make a fool of myself while accepting everyone's newbie gifts. (I still have that potato cannon, by the way; I just need to find a reason to use it.)

Back then I was still going by RinaAndRanda (Rina) and... well, a few months after that, I switched to Iximaz and I've been going by it ever since.

Hard to believe I was just a little baby sixteen year old at the time. My twenty-second birthday is in a few months now, I've gotten engaged, I've moved to a new country... amazing to think what can happen in five years.

You guys are the best online group I've ever had the pleasure to be a part of. I've made so many friends and grown so much as a person and a writer since joining. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Here's to many more! *raises glass in toast*